What a nice, young whipper snapper of a politician. Going to be great to have someone that young.
Fuck, this is such a good shitpost. It’s still cracking me up.
Fk that zionist
As much as you hate the DNC right now they are serving up some major L’s for trump.
To be fair though, with his tarrifs he basically took a hammer to his own nuts.
Go ahead and list them then.
Let me start of with this one:
Fucking band up job opposing Trump and his fascists.
His stated strategy was to allow trumps policies to destroy the gop themselves and prevent subterfuge that would allow them to scape goat the DNC.
So far, it’s working. Trump owns every part of this economy.
I would have like more direct action but who know what would have happened otherwise.
Go ahead and provide that citation.
Also stop waiting on the lost of L’s here.
They think judges going against the Trump admin and then doing nothing to enforce it is an “L” for Trump some how.
What? You’re talking about the USA DNC?
Most of those guys are clowns, but without the charm, skills, or self-awareness. Just the greasepaint and dead eyes.
A handful of them could be outsmarted by a revolving door.
they are serving up major Ls for trump.
Are they tho? Cause to me it seems like trump is floundering and the DNC has spent the last 9 years doing fuck all about it
I’m so over this two party circle jerk.
Who do you think is prosecuting all these cases against the government and stalling their agenda?
Unelected judges?
I don’t really know. Nobody seems to really be in jail, and their agenda keeps happening so enlighten me please.
Supreme Court loses 9-0. Garcia released from super max. They haven’t sent any other migrants to el salvador, yet. Initial wins on dei cases, federal employee cases… etc. I by no means am here to educate you so you can either say your peace and lay off me or I’ll just ignore you for forever. Your choice.
You know none of those are “wins” right? Garcia is where? Trump’s admin is not following the supreme courts orders (and they seem to not care), They are still rounding up people and putting them in camps and as far as I can tell your federal employees are still fired crippling your government further.
This is just more of the odd “teams” nature of what the usa has become, and now both “teams” are in their own silos reading their own news about how the other side is “losing” all while the free world burns.
Tell me, what would you have them do, aside from the obvious like being more vocal and better at controlling the media narrative.
At this point? Step aside.
Their jobs? Like not supporting the continuing resolution and the SAVE act?
Barely showing up wins again!
Things are about to finally cringe
He’s been biding his time
I think people are talking about the spiraling wealth inequality and the resulting economic collapse that nobody in a position of power is interested in admitting exists
Republicans will talk about it, but they blame it on anyone who doesn’t have power.
At this rate I fully expect the democrats to fumble the midterm elections which should be literally the easiest campaign in decades.
DNC at this point has become a thankless scapegoat. Looking from outside the US, its crazy to see the copium. Which political party in this world can “do its job” when you fking literally elect convicted felons? How tf is it the easiest election when a vast majority dont even care that he is a convicted rapist. Its time to blame the citizens for a change than fuckall. Hitler could have run for election and still lose to Trump and that is saying something. With a democrat base like these commenters here, I don’t know why the politicians even bother. Just leave the country for a decade and let it rot.
I’d appreciate if you not engage in this sort of tankie rhetoric. They will not “fumble” if you actually go support them instead of typing behind your .world alt
Criticism of one of the worst democratic party campaigns is clearly the mark of a tankie.
There’s just no way telling your constituency and voter base to “fuck off” would have any kind of negative consequence on the election.
It’s just simply impossible. We clearly lost because the tankies from .ml ran a nationwide psyop that lead to losing every single swing state.
They fumbled against fucking Trump. TWICE. I’m not going to campaign for slightly less bad than Trump because if that’s what they run again I’m done.
Your house is on fire and your entire family is trapped inside.
The firefighters ran in to save your wife, and then got scared and ran out again, and she burned to death.
Then they ran in to save your child, but they got hungry and came back out for lunch. Your child burned to death.
Now your baby is dying, and the firefighters want you to help save it. And you’ve decided to let your baby burn in a fire because you’re mad at the firefighters.
They absolutely will
it’s their entire strategy. jobs: secured
Now that everyone has been reminded about trump, the dnc can run the same candidates from before and people will know to go with it this time, right?
You joke, but can you honestly tell me this place wouldn’t be full of people making trolley problem ““arguments”” about the obviously correct choice to make?
One track is made from subgrade steel and has a risk of derailing the trolley. The other is filled with explosives and shrapnel. Do you change the track?
I change it to whatever track I’m on. Komm, süßer Tod!
Lol
I’d rather join The Resistance than The Collaboration.
The fuck are they going to do now? Keep defending the new status quo?
Just another turn of the ratchet.
Hey, how about run better candidates? You’d think losing to the worst human being in existence would suggest trying something new.
Yeah it is the candidates that were the problem, sure lol
Nobody wants to be a candidate for the left. Have you seen what we do to people we like. I’ve seen people here calling Jon Stewart a fascist. We cook our own alive. Republicans have files on every possible candidate. We have no loyalty. Imagine a hockey team where every player physically and verbally abuses every coach they get. At some point nobody wants to coach your team
Damn right we aren’t loyal to politicians. Are you looking for a leftist Trump? Jon Stewart is not the “left” so I’m not sure why you’re mentioning him at all.
The left is not looking for a coach. We are hiring an employee.
And this is why we’re never going to win. You’re not even playing the game. You’re preaching on a pedestal of quick sand. Trying to yell how morally better you are while your sinking is a bad position to be in. Maybe the reason why fascists win is because the opposition continues to act like they’re better when you need to break free of your base instinct. Like ants in a death spiral. We all circle tighter and tighter into our groups defensively.
A big part of why they’re winning in my opinion is not their appeal but a rejection of the left. And it’s becoming clear that maybe that’s a smart choice given that the left can’t accomplish anything.
Your opinion is dumb and you should feel bad.
No it isn’t. Show me an example where the left has won recently? If the amount of ground lost in the past 10 years isn’t a wake up call then you all deserve it. You all keep calling everyone dumb while you’re being beat and you refuse to recognize it. You’re not losing because they’re just good at things. You’re losing because you are the dumb ones.
I think what they mean is we’re hiring an employee, but everyone doing the interviews believes themselves working at a different company.
Honestly? They are. America is so right-wing that “The Left” encompasses a wide spectrum of ideologies that would all have their own political parties in Europe. Socialists have as much in common with liberals as liberals do with centrists, yet the Dems expect the first two to vote for them while they try to court the conservative leaning side of the centrists.
Hey, Trump may be shipping Americans to El Salvador, but worst human being in existence is a bit of a stretch.
After all, Obama ate a hot dog with Dijon fucking mustard.
Don’t forget that time he wore a tan suit! Or when he didn’t wear an American flag pin that one time. What a commie.
He then showed his true colors, just how much he despises the hard working American people and how badly he wants to live in Versailles
After all, Obama ate a hot dog with Dijon fucking mustard.
Joe really knew how to handle trump. When trump yapped and yapped, Joe basically just went “dang man, can you shut the fuck UP” and it worked for a term 🙏
And then came Kamala
Sure, but his brain was soup by 2024. That’s kinda the main reason people are pissed with the Dems, because they hid this until Joe shit the bed for millions to see — during a debate, no less.
Kamala’s campaign was mostly failed by bad advisors: Clinton staffers and James Carville types who hadn’t won an election in 20 years, they were the ones who made them triangulate, not break from Biden on policy, and even move to the “middle” by getting the Cheneys to tour with them. They retreated the “weird” attack and “we’re not going back” slogan, even as people kept using the former online and chanting the latter at rallies.
They ratfucked her campaign about as hard as Trump is now ratfucking the country.
Its the people dude. People ratfucked the country. Not the candidates, not the advisors, not the campaigns, not Biden, not kamala, not DNC. They all did a decent job considering the circumstances they were in. They all reacted the best they could in an unprecedented scenario of a braindead zombie electorate. Its amazing people still can’t be bothered with this simple fact.
Harris would have been a strong candidate in any other epoch in American history.
What’s changed is the average median voter’s attention-span and engagement in politics. Exit polling showed most Trump voters were stuck on the price of groceries, which they blamed on Biden, and they thought Harris was just more Biden.
At other periods in history, I think voters would have understood what was at stake, who was responsible for what, and would have been just generally a little more connected and involved. 45% of eligible voters stayed home. And I honestly don’t know if it would have mattered if they voted, because people were voting almost at random this last election cycle. Lifelong dems through to Bernie supporters all voting for Trump because “what the hell, why not see what happens” because they’re so checked out, bored and disconnected from their larger community.
A good glimpse into our collective psyche can be seen in any major news outlet’s science headlines every fucking day. “Scientists baffled at HUGE discovery of ancient structures on Mars! Unknown signals from Venus confirm scientist’s worst fears! Giant eyeball planet found in space! Pyramids found to be generators for lost civilization!!!111”
These are all actual headlines from CNN, MSNBC and FOX. This is where the BULK of our society gets their information on the world around them. It doesn’t matter if you care about science or not, the fact that the sources for ANY kind of accurate reporting have thrown in the towel and no longer give a shit about journalism says as much about the state of our countrymen and women as it does about the sorry state of media and journalism. Nobody cares anymore. Nobody knows what’s real or not, so they just tune out and have been encouraged broadly to just “believe what makes you feel good.”
You’re right. Harris would have likely won in 2016. Now everyone’s brain is soup from all the mental masturbation caused by the sloppification of media. The tabloids won, in a spiritual sense. Feels like we’re in a death cult, or at least that life is a lot cheaper. All the stable democracies on the verge of electing far right psychos, won’t be long before we start fighting each other like the good ol’ days — and the people will cheer for carnage just to feel something again.
You’re also right, something has changed. I’m old enough to have seen it on a much larger scale than most who use these sites. I remember before the internet, people were engaged and focused on issues, families gathered around the nightly news and presidential debates and then discussed them with their peers.
What we’re seeing now is the result of America (and other nations) opening up an unchecked access-point for enemies, foreign and domestic, to subvert our very identity as a people. They (being a mixture of forces who want to slice off a piece of America’s pie) used the KGB handbook word-for-word for years to amplify both sides of every discussion, every social issue and every political debate to absurd levels. Online allowed this to happen without any resistance and it’s so easy to do that with a tiny amount of funding anyone can set it in action. There is no point or goal other than making online discourse so incredibly vitriolic, absurd, unreal, and disconnected from reality that people gradually tune out and stop caring about the actual issues that impact us all.
You saw this happen slowly and ramp up in the last several years, so we now have a population who do not trust science, do not trust their political representatives, they do not trust what they see online, they don’t trust what they see on television, and they don’t trust their neighbors. While at the same time, feeling that it’s so inconsequential that there’s no point in being involved anyway. If everything is bullshit and nonsense, why not just watch the latest Netflix series, browse facebook and laugh at everyone you don’t agree with and go to bed.
The carnage is all people tune in for.
Nah let’s swipe Jeb Bush from the GOP
I’m sorry, but this era of old white men has got to stop.
Liz Cheney. It’s her turn.
She was a dynamite running partner for Harris
The American left: I won’t vote Democrat unless they get rid of that old white man and pick someone qualified
educated black woman appears
American left: eeew, not like that
Retard
There it is.
Your history is toxic as fuck
lol okay retard
Stop infecting the left with your toxicity, go join the other side if you wanna be a bigot
Ok I will but you have to stop being a retard first
Does it weird anyone else out how “centrists” or “moderates” or whatever they want to call themselves need to bash leftists when nobody was even talking about leftists? It feels like an op.
Is this “person” I’m replying to living in the same universe as we are? If this feels like valid criticism to anyone, please go touch some grass and talk to your therapist about it.
Isn’t it weird that anyone who disagrees even slightly with you is a “centrist” or worse?
I’m far more left than you are, im merely pointing out that the AMERICAN left is fucked and has become toxic. So no im not living in the same universe as you, the rest of us outside of the U.S are watching the American left in dismay as it becomes a toxic monster (after all its America, it was bound to happen, it’s in the culture) nobody is good enough to be an ally, nobody is left enough, everyone even slightly right or left must be called names, etc. that’s the American left now. You’re inside of it so I’m not surprised you don’t see it
Gee, buddy. Do you really think “American Leftists won’t vote for a Black woman” is a “slight” disagreement? Anybody trying to sow division and discord is an op, whatever politics you profess to hold.
If you were a leftist, you might not be so blithe about substituting your insane guesses for my lived experience. You think you have a better understanding of my own politics than I do, while you’re telling me that I didn’t vote for Kamala because we are the same race. You’re goofy AF.
Any vaguely political post gets hit by corpo-propaganda bots even on Lemmy. That’s why they sound like they have no idea what’s going on.
Sure. I also like the implication that you have to vote for any educated black woman because she’s a black woman.
I voted for her because a shitlib is technically better than a fascist but as long as liberals think identity is policy they’re going to lose.
Can you provide any detail where this “they didn’t vote because she is a women” or “the didn’t vote because she is black” or any other info?
gestures at American history
I’m neither sure rhat I’m following you or that you understood the person above you, but American proclivities are well known. If we’re talking about “the left”, I’d be interested in any actual information about whether “the left” did vote for Harris or not, rather than Democrats assuming that anyone critical of them must not have voted.
You know, that fella may be just Republican enough to be the Democratic nominee.
Slide to the right, slide to the right. Crisscross! Everybody clap your hands.
Just call him Mr. House already.
Honestly, if Trump wants to change the laws for a third time, that finally allows the Trump x Obama battle xD
I do not think they will pass a constitutional amendment, so if Trump runs this will end up in court. I would like to see SC struggling to handle Obamas and Trumps case together.
Alito’s opinion would do enough mental backflips that we could harness it as a dynamo to power the whole world.
Republicans accidentally solving climate change arc HERE WE GOOOOOO
Usually they just ignore the courts and do what they want, but in this case it would be difficult to actually hold a nationwide election, even a sham one, because it would require enough of the states to cooperate and put him on the ballot. The only way he stays in is if he just refuses to leave or if the SCROTUS says that Trump is President for life because reasons.
I dont think that is as far-fetched as you.
So, I am not great with numbers, but if we go by electoral college results from 2024 (using 270towin.com), significantly more states voted red in 2024 than blue; 31 red, 19 blue. 20 states have been red since 2000, vs 15 states (and DC) blue since 2000. My point is that the Republicans have an entrenched advantage. Annnnd of course this is why they would fight tooth & nail against reforming the electoral college.
It’s (horrifyingly) interesting to consider - what would happen if red states put him on the ballot and blue state didn’t because it’s clearly unconstitutional? If (when) he “wins,” none of those states viewed him as a legitimate choice, so the thin veneer of “rule of law” that might be keeping them from outright revolting now wouldn’t exist any more. The Constitution will have proven to mean nothing, so what’s to stop states from seceding?
Unfortunately, you may get your answer.
Indeed. I can’t even begin to predict what will happen after almost four more years of this. The only thing I know for sure is it will be bad. VERY bad.
God the Republican SEETHING
Now I kind of want it to happen.
#MakeDroneStrikesLiberalAgain
No the rule he had drafted was written in such a way that Obama wouldn’t be allowed.
now I’m curious. did it say “only a white male president can run for a third term”?
The rule would allow a third term for only presidents who served two nonconsecutive terms
well that’s incredibly dumb, but I’m not surprised
Who cares, its not the laws apply to them in any way at all.
laws for thee, not for me
It’s not the same without Michelle
That would be so funny haha
Funny, funny… Or funny, sad?
Dead funny xD
